Peking University scholar talks about urbanization and proposes to reduce Beijing’s population density. Is it legal?

According to reports, decentralizing Beijing’s functions, reducing Beijing’s population density, and coordinating economic and social development with resources and the environment are the keys to the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. This scientific conclusion is based on the excessive density in Beijing. However, there are still different opinions on whether Beijing is too clandestine. Yang Kaizhong, a professor at Peking University, president of the China Regional Science Association, and a famous regional economist, accepted a media interview on that date.

Professor Yang said that as a result of the combined effects of various forces, Beijing's population size will objectively first experience a process of slow increase. However, with the reduction of the pressure of urbanization of my country's population, especially the gradual formation of a new pattern of coordinated regional development in my country, and the government's reasonable regulation and control, Beijing's population size will objectively gradually change from increase to decrease after 2020, and enter a process of decline until below 2014 levels. The above goals are realistic and not contradictory.

It is also proposed that large-scale internal migration to coastal areas has been one of the basic driving forces of China's development in the past few decades. At present, my country's coastal areas account for 14.74% of the country's land area and carry 45% of the country's population. They have become the most densely populated super-mega-urbanized areas on earth. Among them, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Pearl River Delta have significantly higher population densities. In the comparable core area of ??Japan, Honshu Island.

Therefore, for sustainable development, the future urbanization of the population in the eastern region with the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Pearl River Delta as the core will inevitably lead to a basic balance of in-migration and out-migration while decentralizing the core cities. This is an endogenous development path, especially in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region with poor natural environment conditions. This means that in the future, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region as a whole should not and will not gather large-scale populations from across the country, but should basically maintain the stability of its own population size. Xiongan New Area and other Beijing decentralization and reception areas should and will inevitably adapt to this situation, change the mode of urbanization, and follow an endogenous urbanization path that mainly takes over Beijing's population and transfers to nearby areas.

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